Title - What Hearts Author: Brooks, Bruce Publisher: HarperCollins Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre When Asa is 11, his dreams of playing baseball are thwarted when his mother attempts suicide on the very day of tryouts. Persuade Realistic Fiction RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 2835 6.5 1040 RDQ based on a maximum of 3000 words Levels are suggested levels based on RDQ, not official levels Sentences Total Words Different Words Max Word/Sent 160 Total # of Words 2815 # of Different Words 916 Ave Word/.Sent 15 Hi Freq occurs 2081 73.9% # of Hi freq words 369 40.3% % of Long Sentences 30.9 Low Freq occurs 186 6.6% # of Low freq words 165 18% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: No support Dialog: Multiple speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Dialog: Unlabeled Speaker Vocabulary: Many difficult words Language: Many descriptive words Sentences: Many Long Complex Text structure: Story/Poem Inferences: Several Implications Complexity: Several unrelated ideas Concepts: Abstract/Complex Social Chapters Mature concepts: With common experiences or clear fantasy Features Character traits Character development Clear cause/effect Complex plot Ambiguous ending Topics Changes Self Esteem Moving *Feelings, Behaviors New School Mental Illness Parents Relationships Low Frequency Words acknowledge addition affronted alertly appreciate approached appropriately aquarium asa's assembled awareness balcony believable bowstring bulged certificates chemical circuit clods comedies composition concern conversation crinkly curtains customers dexterity disliked dismissed disregarded divorce downstroke drawn druggist drugstores eastern embassy emotion ethel fascinated firestone foil forcefully future generous geniuses glared glib glossy gordon grocery guise handbook handwriting hardback heartbeats heaved hesitated imitation implying inventory japanese journal kindergarten kindergartner knapsack knobs knowing language languages latter levy librarian listener lottery lunged marvels maryland mccoys medallions mimeographed missiles mockery motioned nadine newsstands nickname nifty nimbly object ongoing overconfident overfriendly overnight pace packets pained pakistanis patios pebbled penmanship pennington perched perplexed pharmacists photograph physicians pinnacle pointedly poised policewoman pored portuguese potomac private public qualities rabbity rearview reciting recognized rectangle redness refused register relationship remarkably rerun respect respected restaurants revelation rhombus ronnie ronnie's sake sequence severely shrugged sliding slowpoke sober spangled spiffy splaying stoop subtly summaries summary superiority surely tangle tensely throughout triangular triumphant twitched unprivate unsharpened unwisely uphill venezuelan watered weird wheeling